This is my first attempt at drawing a human portrait with markers. My last two attempts with markers were portraits of dogs, and though I think they could be better, they came across convincingly. What’s more important is that the client was very happy. This portrait was proving to be a little too ambitious for […]

This is Ava, and her life was a beautiful story. I’ll share it briefly. Ava was adopted by a kind man from a Bay Area shelter at 7 months old. She had been turned in after having been found crippled and sick from being kept in very tight confinement from young puppyhood. She had never […]

This is Huck. I love this dog. I only had a day to finish, and like always I tend to use materials new to me. Self-sabotage. 😂 I used artists markers  on unfamiliar paper I found in my studio. I think the paper is for acrylic paintings. The marker did not soak in, but layering […]